📍 Minden⬆ 4,722 ft3 runways

KMEV · MEV

Minden-Tahoe Airport

39.00030°N

-119.75100°W

ARR / DAY

▼ 86.2%

DEP / DAY

▼ 85.5%

Minden-Tahoe Airport (KMEV/MEV) is a small general aviation airport located in Minden, NV, 37 mi south of Reno. It features 3 runways with the longest being 7,399 feet. SkyMeter has observed roughly 5 arrivals and 5 departures per day on average over the last 7 days.

Safety incidents

Last 7 days · 0 total

NORMAL

Current weather

Latest METAR observation

17h ago

Temp

66°F

Wind

6 kts

120°

Visib

10+ km

Ceil

—

METAR KMEV 260535Z AUTO 12006KT 10SM CLR 19/M02 A3013 RMK AO2

Runways

3 installed

7,399 FT MAX

Runway intelligence

Which runway carries the operations, observed over the last 30 days

46% of ops

1,187 land · 1,081 TO

24% of ops

624 land · 410 TO

18% of ops

450 land · 127 TO

11% of ops

293 land · 193 TO

Runway 34 carries 46% of operations (1,187 landings, 1,081 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 30 at 24%.

Approach quality

Per-runway unstable-approach, go-around, and long-rollout rates

34 1,187 landings

UA 10%

30 624 landings

UA 4%GA 0.2%

16 450 landings

UA 3%GA 0.9%

12 293 landings

UA 1%

Approaches to 34 show a 10% unstable-approach rate (122 UA events from 1,187 landings).Phase B will add wind-correlation: which crosswind band produces most UA events.

Traffic behavior

When the field is busy: hourly + weekday vs weekend

Daily avg

51.8

flights/day · 1,554 total

Busy hour (local)

7pm

also 6pm · 5pm

Day vs night

61%

06:00–20:00 local

Traffic concentrates around 5pm–7pm local, averaging 51.8 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 1.2× weekday (61.8 vs 50.5 daily).

Aircraft character

What's actually flying here: top types over the last 30 days

Activity is led by (23% of 822 flights). Top three types: , , .

Communications Frequencies

2026-06-11

Type	Freq (MHz)	Hours
CTAF	123.050	—
APCH	119.200	—
APCH	279.550	—
UNICOM	123.050	—
AWOS	119.325	—
CD/P	133.250	—
OTHER	133.250	—

Airport operations

ARTCC:: ZOA
Mag var:: 15° E
Fuel:: 100LL

Hourly traffic

Avg movements per hour · local time · last 30 days

Pilot & community notes

1 comment from OurAirports (click to expand)

PilotBobSenior

09/25/2011

Great field

Slept the night here (in my plane). No close hotels but one of the best airport cafe's you could ever ask for. Small in a hanger pilot shop with great people. A real down home feel to the place. Stop and relax over a great meal at the Tail Dragger Restaurant.

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